A Map of Land Use and Land Cover in Southern Malawi Derived from Sentinel-2 Data (2023)

Overview The land use and land cover map comprises the Mulanje and Phalombe districts, in Southern Malawi. It includes five classes: forest, natural vegetation, cropland, wetland, and other lands. The map is derived from Sentinel-2 mosaics, resulting in a spatial resolution of 10 meters, for 2023. Map Accuracy The land use and land cover map achieves an overall accuracy of 89%. Details of user and producer accuracies are provided in Table 1. Table 1: Land use and land cover classification validation,including overall, producer (PA) and user (UA) accuracies values for each class. Class Producer Accuracy User Accuracy Cropland 93% 85% Wetland 100% 100% Other Lands 90% 95% Forest 79% 90% Natural Vegetation 90% 90% Overall Accuracy 89% Files descripion MLW_Sentinel_LULC_2023.tif / .qml: land use and land cover map and QGIS style file training_samples.gpkg: training samples with class labels validation_samples.gpkg: validation samples with class labels